Atomic Energy in Medicine
London: Butterworth, 1957. First U.K.? Edition. First? Printing. 22 cm, 157, illus., index. More
London: Butterworth, 1957. First U.K.? Edition. First? Printing. 22 cm, 157, illus., index. More
Washington, DC: American Society of Naval Engineers Inc., 1955. Presumed First Edition, First printing thus. Wraps. iv, [4], xxxii, 263-562 pages. Index of Advertisers. Photographs. Figures (including diagrams). Tables. Bibliography. Rear cover and spine has tears. Staples rusted. Cover has wear and soiling. This journal was published quarterly by The Society to further the advancement of naval engineering. The American Society of Naval Engineers (ASNE) is a professional association of naval engineers. Naval Engineering includes all arts and sciences as applied in the research, development, design, construction, operation, maintenance, and logistic support of surface and subsurface ships and marine craft; naval and maritime auxiliaries; aviation and space systems; combat systems including command and control, electronics, and ordnance systems; ocean structures; and associated shore facilities which are used by naval and other military forces and civilian maritime organizations. ASNE's membership consists of military and civilian engineering professionals, defense industry engineers, academics, and engineering students. More
Amherst, NY: Prometheus Books, 2010. First Printing [Stated]. Hardcover. 575, [1] pages. Frontis illustration. Illustrations. Foreword by Peter Lax. Afterward by Richard Garwin. Timeline: Selected Events in Edward Teller's Life. Biographical Names. Notes. Index. DJ has slight wear and soiling. Corners of several pages creased. Istvan Hargittai, Ph.D., D.Sc. (Budapest, Hungary), is the author of several acclaimed books including the six-volume Candid Science series of interviews with famous scientists; Judging Edward Teller; The Road to Stockholm: Nobel Prizes, Science, and Scientists; The Martians of Science: Five Physicists Who Changed the Twentieth Century; and The DNA Doctor: Candid Conversations with James D. Watson. Dr. Hargittai is professor of chemistry at the Budapest University of Technology and Economics and head of the George A Olah Ph.D. School of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering. He is a member of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences, a foreign member of the Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters, and a member of the Academia Europaea in London. His work on the Teller book was assisted by a generous grant from the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation. Edward Teller (January 15, 1908 – September 9, 2003) was a Hungarian-American theoretical physicist who is known colloquially as "the father of the hydrogen bomb" Teller was known both for his scientific ability and for his difficult interpersonal relations and volatile personality. Teller found support from the U.S. government and military research establishment, particularly for his advocacy for nuclear energy development, a strong nuclear arsenal, and a vigorous nuclear testing program. More
Oak Ridge, TN: United States Atomic Energy Commission, Technical Information Services Extension, 1956. Reproduced from the best available copy --believed contemporaneous with initial publication. Wraps. vi, 74 pages. Footnotes. Illustrations (photographs and diagrams). Cover has some wear and soiling. Staple holes and date stamped (1962) on front. Ex-library with the usual library markings. Marked UNCLASSIFIED. The author was with the Safety and Fire Protection Branch, Division of Organization and Personnel at the U. S. Atomic Energy Commission. Among the topics covered are: Criticality Incidents, Reactor Incidents, Contamination Incidents, Fires, Explosions, and Miscellaneous. This includes brief summaries of the two criticality fatalities in 1945 (Haroutune Krikor "Harry" Daghlian Jr.). and 1946 (Louis Slotin) respectively. The deceased are not named in this report. More
Oak Ridge, TN: United States Atomic Energy Commission, Technical Information Services Extension, 1957. Reproduced from the best available copy --believed contemporaneous with initial publication. Wraps. vi, 25, [1] pages. Footnotes. Illustrations (photographs and diagrams). Cover has some wear and soiling. Date stamped (1962) on front. Ex-library with the usual library markings. The author was with the Safety and Fire Protection Branch, Division of Organization and Personnel at the U. S. Atomic Energy Commission. Twenty-one incidents are reported on. They involve Cobalt-60, Plutonium, Uranium, Beta Radiation Burns, Gamma exposure, Thorium Explosion, Thorium Fire, and Tritium exposure. Among the locations involved were: Milford (Connecticut), Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Hanford, Las Vegas, Idaho, Montana, Los Alamos Scientific Laboratory, Eniwetok Proving Ground, Bayside (New York), SEAWOLF, and Detroit (Michigan). More
New York: Columbia University Press, 1958. Presumed first edition/first printing. Hardcover. xii, 289, [1] p. Notes. Cases Cited. Selected Statues. Books and Articles. Index. More
Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1988. 1st Princeton Printing. 425, notes, bibliography, index, colored pen underlining to text, notation inside front flyleafThis book was originally published in 1981. In his new preface, Gregg Herken discusses how the information now available about the role of the atomic bomb in the early cold war has tended to reinforce rather than undermine his assertions and conclusions. More
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1980. First Edition [stated], presumed first printing. Hardcover. x, [4], 425, [7] pages. Illustrations. Footnotes. Notes. Bibliography. Index. Embossed seal impression on first two feps. Gregg Herken is an American historian and museum curator who is Professor Emeritus of History at University of California, Merced. His scholarship mostly concerns the history of the development of atomic energy and the Cold War. During 1988–2003 he was senior historian and curator at the Smithsonian Institution's National Air and Space Museum in Washington, D.C. In 2003, his book Brotherhood of the Bomb, for which he received a MacArthur Grant to write, was a finalist for the Los Angeles Times Book Prize in history. Herken received his B.A. from University of California, Santa Cruz in 1969 and his Ph.D. in modern American diplomatic history from Princeton University in 1974. He subsequently held teaching positions at California State University, San Luis Obispo, Oberlin College, Yale University, and California Institute of Technology, and was a Fulbright-Hays senior research scholar at Lund University. He also served on the U.S. government's Advisory Committee on Human Radiation Experiments during 1994–95. More
New York: Knopf, 1993. First Edition [stated]. First Printing? Hardcover. 25 cm. ix, [1], 948, [2] pages. Illustrations. Principal Sources. Notes. Index. Pencil erasure residue on front endpaper. James Hershberg is a professor of History and International Affairs at George Washington University, Elliott School of International Affairs. He is a graduate of Harvard College, Columbia University and Tufts University. Hershberg is a leading scholar on Cold War history and a former Director of the Cold War International History Project at the Woodrow Wilson Center in Washington, DC. His first book was on the life of former Harvard President James Bryant Conant. More
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1993. First Edition [stated]. Presumed First Printing. Hardcover. 25 cm. ix, [1], 948, [2] pages. Illustrations. Principal Sources. Notes. Index. Inscribed by author on half-title page. Signed by author on title page. James Hershberg is a professor of History and International Affairs at George Washington University, Elliott School of International Affairs. He is a graduate of Harvard College, Columbia University and Tufts University. Hershberg is a leading scholar on Cold War history and a former Director of the Cold War International History Project at the Woodrow Wilson Center in Washington, DC. His first book was on the life of former Harvard President James Bryant Conant. More
New York: Simon & Schuster, 2019. Fourth printing [stated]. Hardcover. xx, 38, [2] pages. Illustrated endpapers. Note on Translation and Transliteration. Illustrations. Maps. Author's Notes. Glossary. Units of Radiation. Notes. Bibliography. Index. Adam Higginbotham (born 1968 in Somerset) is a British journalist who is the former U.S. correspondent for The Sunday Telegraph Magazine and former editor-in-chief of The Face. He has also served as a contributing writer for The New Yorker, Wired, and The New York Times. His narrative non-fiction and feature writing has appeared in magazines including The New Yorker, Wired, Smithsonian and The New York Times Magazine. Many of his stories have been optioned for development in film and TV. Higginbotham is the author of Midnight in Chernobyl: The Untold Story of the World's Greatest Nuclear Disaster, published in 2019, which received the 2020 William E. Colby Award for Military and Intelligence Writing, the 2020 Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Non-Fiction, and was selected one of the 10 Best Books of 2019 by The New York Times. This work has been translated into 21 languages. More
San Francisco, CA: Sierra Club Books, 1982. First Printing. 282, illus., footnotes, index, ink underlining on a few pages, front DJ flap creased, DJ edges worn: small tears and chips. More
San Francisco, CA: Sierra Club Books, 1982. First Printing. 282, illus., figures, footnotes, index, DJ somewhat scuffed and soiled, small edge tears/chips to DJ. More
New York: Hawthorn Books, [1961]. First Edition. First? Printing. 21 cm, 156, footnotes, front DJ flap price clipped, DJ worn: tears, small pieces missing along edges. More
New York: Reinhold Publishing Corp. 1963. Quarto, 673, illus., figures, tables, appendices, reading list, index, bds & spine scuffed & somewhat stained, some wear bd & spine edges. More
New York: Reinhold Pub. Corp. [1963]. First? Edition. First? Printing. 26 cm, 673, illus., usual library markings, boards and edges soiled, slightly cocked. More
Oak Ridge, TN: U.S. Atomic Energy Comm. [1964]. First? Edition. First? Printing. 22 cm, 38, wraps, illus., slight wear and soiling to covers. More
Oak Ridge, TN: U.S. Atomic Energy Comm. [1964]. First? Edition. First? Printing. 22 cm, 38, wraps, illus., some wear and soiling to covers. More
New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 1994. Presumed First Edition/First Printing. Hardcover. 24 cm. xvi, 464, illus., bookplate, DJ slightly worn and soiled, erasure on front endpaper. David Holloway is the Raymond A. Spruance Professor of International History, and a professor of political science. His research focuses on the international history of nuclear weapons, on science and technology in the Soviet Union, and on the relationship between international history and international relations theory. His book Stalin and the Bomb: The Soviet Union and Atomic Energy, 1939-1956 was chosen by the New York Times Book Review as one of the 11 best books of 1994, and it won the Vucinich and Shulman prizes of the American Association for the Advancement of Slavic Studies. It has been translated into six languages. Holloway also wrote The Soviet Union and the Arms Race (1983) and co-authored The Reagan Strategic Defense Initiative: Technical, Political and Arms Control Assessment (1984). He has contributed to the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, Foreign Affairs, and other scholarly journals. Since joining the Stanford faculty in 1986, Holloway has served as chair and co-chair of the International Relations Program (1989-1991), and as associate dean in the School of Humanities and Sciences (1997-1998). He received his undergraduate degree in modern languages and literature, and his Ph.D. in social and political sciences, both from Cambridge University. More
New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 1994. Presumed First Edition/First Printing. Hardcover. 24 cm. xvi, 464 pages. Illustrations. Illustration Sources. List of Abbreviations. Bibliographical Note. Notes. Biographical Notes. Index. DJ has some tears, wear and soiling. Signed with sentiment by author on fep. David Holloway is the Raymond A. Spruance Professor of International History, and a professor of political science. His research focuses on the international history of nuclear weapons, on science and technology in the Soviet Union, and on the relationship between international history and international relations theory. His book Stalin and the Bomb: The Soviet Union and Atomic Energy, 1939-1956 was chosen by the New York Times Book Review as one of the 11 best books of 1994, and it won the Vucinich and Shulman prizes of the American Association for the Advancement of Slavic Studies. It has been translated into six languages. Holloway also wrote The Soviet Union and the Arms Race (1983) and co-authored The Reagan Strategic Defense Initiative: Technical, Political and Arms Control Assessment (1984). He has contributed to the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, Foreign Affairs, and other scholarly journals. Since joining the Stanford faculty in 1986, Holloway has served as chair and co-chair of the International Relations Program (1989-1991), and as associate dean in the School of Humanities and Sciences (1997-1998). He received his undergraduate degree in modern languages and literature, and his Ph.D. in social and political sciences, both from Cambridge University. More
Mt. Airy, MD: Lomond Books, 1975. 24 cm, 406, highlighting/underlining, some wear, soiling, and edge tears to DJ. More
Norman, OK: University of Oklahoma Press, 2004. First Printing [Stated]. Hardcover. x, [2], 288, [4] pages. List of Illustrations. Maps. Notes. Bibliography. Index. Contents include Introduction; Rendezvous at Site Y: The Instant City; Fishing in the Desert with Fat Man: Civic Tension, Atomic Explosion; Postwar Los Alamos: Exodus, New Growth, and Invisible Danger; Los Alamos Transformed: Federal Largesse and Red Challenge; A Cold War Community Up in Arms: Competition and Conformity; Toward Normalizing Los Alamos: Cracking the Gates; and Atomic City on a Hill: Legacy and Continuing Research. A narrative history focuses on how the inhabitants of Los Alamos, New Mexico, confronted both the rush to create an atomic bomb and the intensity of the subsequent Cold War era, in a study of a community's first fifteen years as home to a national laboratory. It explores the momentous events that created the town, the lives of the families who lived there, and the impact this small community had on the creation and development of the Atomic Age. Jon Hunner was a Professor of History at New Mexico State University. Dr. Hunner taught at New Mexico State University from 1995 to 2018. He specialized in 20th century U.S. history and Public History. He received his Ph.D. from the University of New Mexico, and is the author of Inventing Los Alamos, J. Robert Oppenheimer, the Cold War and the Atomic West, and other works. He previously served as director of the New Mexico History Museum. More
n.p. IEEE Computer Society, 1984. 5.5" x 8.25", 8, wraps, illus. More
Vienna: IAEA, 1966. First? Edition. First? Printing. 24 cm, 291, wraps, illus., covers worn, spine torn, pencil erasure on front endpaper. More
Vienna: IAEA, 1962. Wraps, notes on front cover, some page discoloration. More